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Word on the Hill: What’s Buzzing Around the Capitol?

Mardi Gras, and Rick Steves is talking weed

Boxes containing the President Donald Trump’s budget request for fiscal year 2019 arrive in the House Budget Committee hearing room on Monday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Boxes containing the President Donald Trump’s budget request for fiscal year 2019 arrive in the House Budget Committee hearing room on Monday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

We’re all over Capitol Hill and its surrounding haunts looking for good stories. Some of the best are ones we come across while reporting the big stories.

There is life beyond legislating, and this is the place for those stories. We look for them, but we don’t find them all. We want to know what you see, too.

Send tips, clips and all your hot goss to HOH@rollcall.com, tweet at us at @HeardontheHill or send them directly to Alex Gangitano, our Heard on the Hill reporter, at AlexGangitano@rollcall.com.

Here’s the word on the Hill for today:

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